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The Rot Within: Security and Corruption in Latin America
- Social Research: An International Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 80, Number 4, Winter 2013
- pp. 1187-1212
- 10.1353/sor.2013.0044
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This article asserts that the biggest source of corruption in the democratizing world is through connections between the state security sector and the non-state armed sectors, who build on lucrative international trades, state resources, and democracy’s institutional weaknesses. With a focus on Latin America, it creates a framework for understanding this contemporary form of corruption by looking at security structures, the security economy, and judicial systems.